V. I. Lenin

Plan for Lectures on Marxism{1}

Written:Written in 1908 or 1909Published:First published in 1933 inLenin Miscellany XXV.

      Printed from the original.Source:Lenin
	  Collected Works,

      Progress Publishers,1977,

      Moscow,Volume 41,

      pages221-222.1.Translated:Yuri SdobnikovTranscription\Markup:R. CymbalaCopyleft:V. I. Lenin Internet Archive (www.marxists.org)
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{1}The plan was written in 1938 or 1909, but the Institute of
Marxism-Leninism has no direct information on these lectures. Those who
were there recall that Lenin read some lectures on philosophy in the
Bolshevik circle in Paris in early 1909. Mention of industry in 1907 is an
indication that the plan was written later than 1907, since the statistical
data for that year could not have been available before the beginning of
the following one.

Thereference to “present-day opportunists (Bogdanov)” in point 6 of
the section “Philosophical Materialism” implies that the plan was written
not earlier than the second half of March 1908, just when (not later than
April 3 [16]) Lenin had sent to the press his article “Marxism and
Revisionism”, in which he made is first press attack on Bogdanov for his
opportunist, revisionist views in philosophy. Almost all the points of the
section “Philosophical Materialism” are reflected in his book
“Materialism and Empirio-Criticism”; some points of the section
“The Agrarian Question” are dealt with in his works on the agrarian
question written in 1908.

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